The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-29

name, which is inscribed on the gun. His letter
reveals the bitterness of blasted career.
AN art magazine published in Boston ex-
presses itself as shocked at some of the illus
trated advertisements which it finds in the pa
pers. There is no artistic excuse, it says, for
these newspaper prints of naked babies and
nude women bath tubs. ''They are simply
coarse and vulgar. and cater only to prurent
Imagnations." Without wishing to raise the
question to the morality of the nude in art,
the Journal confesses its belief that the effect
whatever it may be, of the picture of a woman
with scanty drapery and armed with a cake of
soap. who is about to step into the water for
purposes of abluton, will not differ greatly from
that produced upon the average mind by rep
resentation, say, Of a woman with no drapery
whatever lying upon the sand on the seashore
and gazing at the sky. The fact that ap
pears in q newspaper and the other in the pages
of an art magazine, that one is an advertise
ment and the other ''pure art" hardly explains
why the woman with the soap should be de-
moralizing creature and the woman on the sand
an inspiration the art exponents would
have US believe is the case. The distinction is
too fine for the unBsthetic minds to grasp. There
is. on the other hand, to the prosaic comprehen-
sion, fitness in the combination of nudity and
soap which is altogether wanting in the of
nudity and sand, and if the matter were left to
popular opinion there is awful probability
that the 'high-art" advocates would be voted
down, and that the goddess on the shore would
give way to the practical female at the tub
that is to say. il both were not banished from
sight
FRIEND of MN. Modjeska, in Chicago
asked her for an autograph letter concerning
some of her parts, and she responded in a
charmingly bright and gossipy letter, from which
the following is exstract:
For my own humble self, in common with
many brothers and sisters in art, L find In the
works of Shakespeare the greatest relief of the
novices of my profession. The ambition of
playing Shakespeare in his native language was
the chief incentive that pushed me upon the
boards of the English-spsaking stage. Were it
not for the happiness of performing occasionally
the characters he has creatsd / might have
lacked IN the strength necessary TO continue my
career. All. let Mr. r. at him! Some
sneers are more complimentary than the highest
praise and whatever some representatives of the
so-called modern taste may say or insinuate, one
fact remains true. There is in the part of your
great figure that stands so high that
all those who como after him would not touch the
level of his feet, SO broad in his reach that all
other races bow to him, and acclaim him as be-
longing to the entire humanity"
THE lovers of good music and our citizens as,
we'll. should not forget that the National Music
Teachers Association meets in this city on the
5th, 9Th, 7th and Sth of July-only six weeks
from this time-when it is expected there will
be the largest gathering OF music people that
ever assembled in the West Such talent can
not fail to attract large number of lovers OF
music from all parts of the country, and the oc-
cason promises to be OF unusual interest
There will be an immense number of strangers
in attendance, who will be here for the first
time and it is very important that we extend to
them the hospitality for which this city has been
noted. Everyone should be prepared to do his or
her full duty toward making the occasion a
great social, as well as a musical and financial
success.
CLEAR.HEADEDNEss is what Mr.. Henry George
prides himself on above all things and his
friends are never tired of sounding the praises of
his practical mind Mr. George had an engage
ment to lecture in Scranton, Pa, but had mis-
laid his notes, and could only remember that the
time set a Tuesday. There was Tues
day this week, and, rememb erng this fact, the
free-land theorst set off for Scranton only to
find that he was a week ahead of time. He was
very much annoyed, natural enough;
but there was nothing left to do but to HE him
self back to New York on the first train. He
might have telegraphed to Scranton to make
of the date but it appears that his practical
sense was not fitted for emergencies of this
sort.
AT the recent annual commencement of the
Columbia Law School, Professor Dwight deliv-
cred an address the rights of property. After
discussing the origin and antiquity Of land titles
he called attention TO the wisdom of the early
60 h.. To-
ton that private land should be taken by the
state without just compensation. This provision
could not be abolished without the consent of
and Mr.. Georges land theories carried out, the
state would all the churches, all the col
leges all the schools and it would probably not
be long before some adventurer would stand in
the legislative halls and exc1aim: 1.-THE state,
the state! am the stated"
THE vase presented to the New York Chamber
of Commerce by the French government, as
token of its appreciation of the courtesies ex-
tended to the French delegation which attended
the dedication of the Bartholdi statue, has
reached New York. The vase is of Sevres ware,
from the government factories It is two feet
high and has bell-shaped top twelve inches in
diameter at Its widest part. At its base the vase
Is eight inches across It's coIor is OF oeauttuI
greenish shade, only produced by the methods
of firing the Sevres pottery. The is pro-
nounced work of high art, and it's value is
probably in the neighborhood of 81, 000
THE Associated Press man at Washingtonfde-
scribes the sponsor OF the Mobile military COM
pany young lady of ''queeny FORM Why
not be little defnitel There is Queen
who is described being FIVE feet in
height by four and half feet in circumference
while Kapioanis queenly form tips the beam at
$50 pounds, whereabouts. Which of these
it may be inquired, does the Mobile
young woman resemblel
ONE of the trains concerned in the accident on
the Pennsylvania road was freight had both
been fast passenger trains the loss of life would
have been far greater Passengers who have |